I would just send the EBM myself. How do you have it stored?
I used to have mine in icecubes, so I could make up a bottle with the cubes still frozen, leave it in the fridge overnight to defrost and then send it to CC ready to go. They just popped it in their fridge and warmed it up when needed.
Personally, I think if you can defrost it yourself you should. Then you know it has been done properly.
Take a look HERE - includes some info you could print out for daycare (there's a link at the bottom to download in pdf form too)
Mothers' Direct also sells booklets on breastfeeding and returning to work and expressing and storing breast milk, that you might want to buy.
yep I did what Miss E did most of the time.
Child care centres should be good at following the guidelines- they look after a LOT of kids... when i needed them to mine always defrosted and heated how i asked...
print out how you want it done, ior write it up and they should follow it.
but for the most part you could defrost yoruself like Miss E suggested
DS went with EBM and it was fine. He was 9mths when he started and we filled out a sheet of what he drank, ate etc. We just highlighted it was EBM not formula and to heat in the bottle warmer and all was fine. They had a microwave there for other bottles, but there were occasions I arrived early and they were heating up DS's in the bottle warmer so I never had any concerns they were doing it wrong.
I never sent frozen, only defrOsted Ebm in the bottle. I was always worried they'd defrost it incorrectly etc. I highlighted that it was Ebm and they were excellent though. Very supportive and careful to let me know what she was and wasn't drinking which helped me to reduce any waste.
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